http://www.cato.org/pubs/pas/pa-613.pdf
Before we jump into a massive government expansion of healthcare, it's our responsibility to do some research. The most important part of healthcare is quality. If you read Michael Tanner's research, posted above, you can see that the United States, when it comes to innovation, quality, and choice, without a doubt has far and away the best healthcare system in the world. These facts can not be disputed, as they are raw data, absolutely indicating a strong, quality system.
If you watch his YouTube videos, he also explains how 45-50 million uninsured Americans is a drastic misrepresentation of the truth. In addition, he tackles healthcare cost woes, and offers solutions. He stumbles upon a paradox where most Americans, 83%, say they are happy with their healthcare quality, and 70% are happy with the access, yet, 73% think the system is broken. When offered the widest possible range of healthcare reforms, from the most free-market reform to a single-payer system, the public voted yes for every single one of them. They public supported completely contridactory policies; 86% of Americans wanted to remove the link between jobs and insurance, and 81% wanted to make companies provide health insurance. That proves, single-handedly, a problem with knowledge of the issues.
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It's really depressing that the current government is so adamant about passing universal health-care when the vast majority of Americans don't support the plan they've devised.
ReplyDeleteIf you ask me, the primary goal for them in passing this is not to help the '50 million uninsured Americans', but rather to assert the state's control over a major facet of our personal life, our health. It's all about controlling society as strictly as possible in order for them to continue their social engineering experiments started during the Wilson presidency, continued in the New Deal, expanded with LBJ's Great Society and now rehashed as Obama's vision of 'the Change' we all apparently voted for in November.